SIDESHOW ODDITIES WILD-WEST BARNUM MAGIC 2025-06-21 Auction - 1100 Price Results - Freedom Auction Company in FL - Page 27
Sideshow Banner - Alligator Girl - Snap WyattRingling Bros. Barnum Bailey - Ubangi SavagesSideshow Banner - Electra - Dick Beck
Done
SARASOTA, FL, United States
Auction Details

SIDESHOW ODDITIES WILD-WEST BARNUM MAGIC

ROBERT F. HOUSTON'S PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF THE CIRCUS - SESSION #2 WITH HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDING TOM THUMB WARDROBE, 30 SIDESHOW BANNERS, ODDITIES, TAXIDERMY, 101 RANCH, BUFFALO BILL, PT BARNUM, JUMBO, JENNY LIND, MAGIC, CARNIVAL, CIRCUS AND MUCH MORE.
LiveAuctioneers Purchase Protection
Get the confidence you need to bid on the items you love.Learn More
Complete payment via LiveAuctioneers to qualify.
Sold
Bizarre: Bizarre, compiled by Barry Humphries, Bell Publishing, New York, 1965. Hardcover with jacket.
0562: BizarreEst. $50-$100
Sold
Freaks and Fire: Freaks and Fire - The Underground Reinvention of Circus, J. Dee Hill with photography by Phil Hollenbeck, Soft Skull Press, 2004. Text with illustrations. Soft cover, 175 pages.
0563: Freaks and FireEst. $50-$100
Sold
The Classical Technique of Fire Eating: With 20 Art Photo Studies of Bruno Nolo's Living Statue Fire Act, Gerald Taylor, Mickey Hades International, Calgary, 1980. Soft cover, 42 pages.
0564: The Classical Technique of Fire EatingEst. $50-$100
Sold
Collection of Sideshow Freak Books: Freaks folio advertising with French copy, Freaks - Mike Vitka, Alive-Inside, Dr. Zomb's House of Freaks - Art Penn, Shocked and Amazed - The World of the Side Show - Barnum Museum, Enter the
0565: Collection of Sideshow Freak BooksEst. $50-$100
Sold
Collection of Freak and Sideshow Book Titles: 10 titles including: Inside Teradome, Little People, The Strongman, The Gathering, Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others, Sideshow and others.
0566: Collection of Freak and Sideshow Book TitlesEst. $100-$200
Sold
Collection of Freak and Sideshow Book Titles: 10 titles including: Skin & Bones Tattoos in the Life of the American Sailor, Heavily Tattooed Men and Women, Freakery, Carny Folk and others.
0567: Collection of Freak and Sideshow Book TitlesEst. $100-$200
Sold
A.W. Stencell - Canada's Barnum Book Titles: Three Classics from Al W. Stencell: Circus and Carnival Ballyhoo - Sideshow Freaks, Jaggers and Blade Box Queens, Girl Show - Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind, Seeing is Believing - America's
0568: A.W. Stencell - Canada's Barnum Book TitlesEst. $100-$200
Sold
Collection of Freak and Sideshow Book Titles: 17 volumes including: Freakery, Freak Like Me, Very Special People, Freak Show, The Two, Weird and Wonderful and others.
0568A: Collection of Freak and Sideshow Book TitlesEst. $100-$200
Sold
Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus - Zulu Tribe: Zulu Tribe Wardrobe and Drum for the 126th edition of the Greatest Show on Earth.
0569: Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus - Zulu TribeEst. $100-$200
Sold
Born Oddities Archive: Robert F. Houston's Collection of Born Human Oddities, a five-inch three ring research binder on the topic. Includes original and reproduction photographs, articles, brochures, pitch cards and more.
0570: Born Oddities ArchiveEst. $300-$600
Sold
Sideshow Banner Lines Archive: Robert F. Houston's Collection of Sideshow Bannerlines, a three-inch three ring binder dedicated to the topic. Includes original and reproduction photographs, articles, letters and more. Included
0571: Sideshow Banner Lines ArchiveEst. $300-$600
Sold
Little People - Circus Sideshow Archive: Robert F. Houston's Collection of Little People, a three-inch three ring binder dedicated to the topic. Includes original and reproduction photographs, articles and more. A researcher's delight!
0572: Little People - Circus Sideshow ArchiveEst. $300-$600
Sold
Sideshow Human Oddities Archive: Robert F. Houston's Collection of Sideshow Human Oddities, a three-inch binder dedicated to the topic. Includes original and reproduction photographs, pitch and postcards, bios and more. A
0573: Sideshow Human Oddities ArchiveEst. $300-$600
Sold
Sideshow and Oddities Archive: Robert F. Houston's Collection of Sideshow and Oddities, an four-inch thick archive including reproduction images, articles, letters and information dedicated to the topic. A researcher's delight!
0574: Sideshow and Oddities ArchiveEst. $100-$200
Sold
Siamese Twins Oddities Archive: Robert F. Houston's Collection of Siamese Twin. A folio containing reproduction images and information on the topic. A researcher's delight! Philadelphia Miniature Museum of the Circus Archive.
0575: Siamese Twins Oddities ArchiveEst. $100-$200
Sold
Human Oddities Archive: Robert F. Houston's Collection of Human Oddites focusing on Half-Boys and Half-Girls and those with shortened or no appendages. A researcher's delight! Philadelphia Miniature Museum of the Circus
0576: Human Oddities ArchiveEst. $100-$200
Sold
Frieda Pushnik Archive: Robert F. Houston's Collection of material dedicated to Frieda Pushnik (1923-2000). Pushnik toured with Ripley's Believe it or Not and the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus with no arms or
0577: Frieda Pushnik ArchiveEst. $100-$200
Sideshow Daily Sales Reports: Series of Daily Records of the income on the sideshows of Gooding Amusement - 1961 and blanks for the Carson and Barnes Circus
0578: Sideshow Daily Sales ReportsEst. $50-$100Lot Passed
Sold
Sideshow Photograph Archive: Sideshow photography featuring banner lines, acts and more. Over 80 photographs, mounted on scrapbook pages. Original photographs including some older restrikes. Philadelphia Miniature Museum of
0579: Sideshow Photograph ArchiveEst. $200-$400
Sold
Sideshow Photograph Archive: Sideshow photography featuring banner lines, acts and more. 19 restrike photographs, 8"x10". Robert F. Houston Collection.
0580: Sideshow Photograph ArchiveEst. $100-$200
Sold
Hermaphrodites and Three-Legged Men Archive: Includes original and restrike photographs of Half-Man Half-Woman, pitch cards and brochures, images of Frank Lentini - Three-Legged man amd an image of a Jean Libbera - The Double-Bodied Man.
0581: Hermaphrodites and Three-Legged Men ArchiveEst. $200-$300
Sold
Sideshow Photograph Archive: Includes 12 original and restrike photographs of sideshow scenes including banners and performers. 8"x10". Robert F. Houston Collection.
0582: Sideshow Photograph ArchiveEst. $100-$200
Sold
Sideshow Photograph Archive: Over 50 sideshow and oddity restrike photographs including: fats, thins, alligator skin, Siamese Twins, dwarves, giants, hermaphrodites, Johnny Eck, flame eater, sword swallorers, tattoo, anatomical
0583: Sideshow Photograph ArchiveEst. $200-$300
Sold
Portrait Painting of a Clown: Unsigned oil on canvas portrait painting of a white face clown. Gilt framed. 28"x20". This item requires shipping by third party.
0584: Portrait Painting of a ClownEst. $100-$200